A U.S.-based company that scraps the web for images of people and sells them to clients tells Privacy Daily it will appeal a Wednesday decision from a U.K. panel that ruled its activities violate its citizens' privacy.
Businesses should expect an increase in universal opt-out preference signals (OOPS) after California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) signed a bill Wednesday that requires all web browsers to support the functionality (see 2510080036), said Tom Kemp, California Privacy Protection Agency executive director. The CPPA and regulators in other states are checking if companies are honoring such requests, Kemp warned in an interview Wednesday. Newsom signed AB-566 and two other privacy bills earlier in the day.
The $1.35 million California enforcement action against Tractor Supply Co. this week raised the bar for privacy compliance, emphasizing that privacy laws and rights extend beyond consumers, privacy lawyers and advocates said in interviews with Privacy Daily. The California Privacy Protection Agency (CPPA) found that the country's largest rural lifestyle retailer violated the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) in several instances, including how it handled candidates for employment (see 2509300010).
Privacy is an ever-evolving landscape, meaning that company privacy policies, technologies and teams must be constantly updated, panelists said Wednesday during a webinar hosted by Didomi, a consent-management software vendor. With enforcement actions by regulators increasing and legislators continuing to implement new laws, companies must stay on top of the latest developments, they added.
The U.K. government has no plans to ban virtual private networks (VPNs) despite a surge in users downloading them to circumvent age verification and estimation rules under the Online Safety Act (OSA), a government spokesperson said.
A Delaware health care company violated HIPAA rules by publicly sharing patient data without consent, the Health and Human Services Office for Civil Rights announced in a settlement Tuesday.
Montana became the third state to regulate neural data as an amendment to the state’s genetic privacy law took effect Wednesday, adding to a trend of states overseeing the neurotechnology space (see 2508180034). On the same day, amendments to Montana’s comprehensive privacy law took effect, expanding its scope and introducing more protections for children.
The California Privacy Protection Agency assessed its largest-ever penalty, ordering Tractor Supply Co. to pay a $1.35 million fine and change its business practices, the CPPA said Tuesday.
The California Privacy Protection Agency assessed its largest-ever penalty, ordering Tractor Supply Co. to pay a $1.35 million fine and change its business practices, the CPPA said Tuesday. The company told Privacy Daily that it’s committed to compliance and addressed the privacy issues raised.
The first year of Saudi Arabia's Personal Data Protection Law (PDPL) showed "significant progress" in "establishing a robust data protection framework," data management consultant Abdulaziz Almanea wrote in an IAPP analysis.